Marcin Romanovsky was not the first. Earlier, the former president of Orlen, Daniel Obaitek, and the former prime minister of North Macedonia, Nikola Grevski, took advantage of Hungarian hospitality. The former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, spent two nights in the Hungarian embassy in Brazil in February of this year. Hungary is willing to grant asylum to former rulers who are being prosecuted for corruption.
This is a rare and even unprecedented move – this is how the Euronews website explains Hungary's decision to grant asylum to the former Deputy Minister of Justice of Poland. Other foreign media also write about the unusual situation with two EU countries.
In Euronews we read that “it is rare for another European country to agree to grant asylum to a fugitive on the basis of a European arrest warrant”.
The portal emphasizes that the Hungarian Prime Minister avoided questions about this decision and left the meeting of the European Council on Thursday. – I am not involved in this legal process. Do you have any other questions? – explained Viktor Orbán.
How does the foreign press interpret this case?
The Euronews website also cites evidence presented by PiS that the new Polish government is “using the justice system to unfairly attack the opposition”.
“Prime Minister Donald Tusk's government claims it has cleared the way for prosecutors to investigate violations under the previous nationalist Law and Justice government that were previously covered up,” Reuters reports, citing the agency's position. Polish authorities.
“Orbán is a close ally of the right-wing Law and Justice party, which was ousted from power by the pro-European coalition of Prime Minister Donald Tusk,” the Euractiv portal recalls. “All this has led to a rare legal dispute between two EU member states,” the portal concludes.
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German media write about the angry reaction of the Polish authorities to the granting of asylum to Marcin Romanowski from Hungary.
“A former deputy minister of Poland is wanted under a European arrest warrant on charges of corruption. Hungary has to comply with this order, but the man was granted asylum there. Warsaw considers this a hostile act”, – we read on the website of the weekly Der Spiegel”.
Politico assesses directly – Orbán angered Warsaw, and his decision led to another dispute between Poland and Hungary. “Tusk condemned Hungary's decision on Friday and compared the Budapest government to Alexander Lukashenko's dictatorship in Belarus,” the website reads.
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“Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was a longtime ally of the previous government in Poland when both countries were criticized by the European Union for undermining democracy,” Bloomberg reported.
“Since Donald Tusk came to power, his government has helped restore Poland's access to billions of euros in aid that had been blocked due to concerns about rule of law violations. Brussels continues to withhold €20 billion in funds for Hungary.” , – wrote on the website. .
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Hungary once again grants asylum to a person wanted for corruption
“Tusk has often criticized Orbán for his romance with the Russian president and his refusal to provide military aid to Ukraine,” adds Bloomberg. Another American business magazine – “Barron's” notes that this is not the first time that Hungary has given shelter to foreign allies of Orbán who are wanted in their own countries.
“In 2018, this Central European country granted asylum to the former prime minister of North Macedonia, Nikola Gruevski, after he was sentenced to two years in prison for abuse of office. This year, the former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, stayed in the Hungarian embassy in Dushanbe for two days. Brazil in mid-February because the police had previously confiscated his passport and arrested two of his accomplices,” says Barron.
The press reminds that at the beginning of this year, the former president of Orlen, Daniel Obaitek, also stayed in Hungary until he became a member of the European Parliament. Foreign portals conclude that Hungary's latest move regarding Marcin Romanovsky deepens the rift between the former allies, as Budapest and Warsaw were once called.
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